# Rudolph, you'll go down in history (like \_\_\_) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727 "2013-12-19T14:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/21 "2013-12-19T16:56:04Z")
To match up with “_Go down_ in history”, I would offer “Pompeii” or “Atlantis”. Or “Linda Lovelace”. ---
**Author:** ![Heropsychodreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Heropsychodreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heropsychodreamer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/22 "2013-12-19T16:56:38Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Really? I thought the little ‘additions’ to Rudolph were universal if not completely agreed upon. > > ‘play in any reindeer games’. Like Football! > ‘you’ll go down in historeeeeee’. Like Attilla the Hun! Monopoly and Napoleon from New England. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/23 "2013-12-19T17:03:27Z")
“Reindeer games” include, apparently, Monopoly, which scans the same as “History” and its exemplar, George Washington. Although I think “Hitler” would be funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/24 "2013-12-19T17:04:43Z")
George Washington. The point is that it doesn’t match the poem at all. And monopoly is totally a reindeer game, not football. ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/25 "2013-12-19T17:14:22Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Really? I thought the little ‘additions’ to Rudolph were universal if not completely agreed upon. > > ‘you might even think it glows’. Like a lightbulb! (shouted) > ‘play in any reindeer games’. Like Football! > ‘you’ll go down in historeeeeee’. Like Attilla the Hun! ‘used to laugh and call him names.’ Like Dumbo! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/26 "2013-12-19T17:30:16Z")
> [@Clawdio](#): > > ‘used to laugh and call him names.’ Like Dumbo! No, like Stoplight! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/27 "2013-12-19T17:31:29Z")
Columbus, learned it in Los Angeles as a kid. My kids, here in South Carolina, say George Washington. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/28 "2013-12-19T17:35:06Z")
> [@Clawdio](#): > > ‘used to laugh and call him names.’ Like Dumbo! Nope, the version I learned was “Like Pinnochio!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/29 "2013-12-19T17:45:26Z")
Always heard “Like Lincoln” when I was growing up. This would be California in the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/30 "2013-12-19T17:55:04Z")
Names? Like W. C. Fields or O. G. Wotasnozzle. 😃 Go down in history? Like Speedy Alka-Seltzer or Ronald McDonald. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/31 "2013-12-19T18:00:39Z")
Grew up in upstate NYand metro Atlanta. Pinocchio, Monopoly, George Washington. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/32 "2013-12-19T18:01:28Z")
George Washington. I’m in Ohio. Been that way since I was a kid, and it’s what I still hear when the small kids around here are singing it. I also concur with “like Pinocchio” I didn’t even know it was possible to hear or single the song without doing the callbacks. It’s just automatic. I’m surprised to learn there are so many who weren’t aware of them. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/33 "2013-12-19T18:10:52Z")
Columbus, and from Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/34 "2013-12-19T18:11:28Z")
Born in NW Indiana. “Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio!)” “Join in any reindeer games (like Monopoly!)” “You’ll go down in history (like Columbus!)” ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/35 "2013-12-19T18:12:32Z")
I love that there are users on this board that have no idea what we’re talking about here. Chicago, grew up in the 80s: Called him names: Like Pinocchio Reindeer games: Like Monopoly History: Like George Washington ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/36 "2013-12-19T18:19:04Z")
Chicago, seventies. Like Bobby Orr… ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/37 "2013-12-19T18:33:55Z")
> [@smaje1](#): > > Chicago, grew up in the 80s: > > Called him names: Like Pinocchio > Reindeer games: Like Monopoly > History: Like George Washington Same on all counts, but replace Chicago with St. Louis. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/38 "2013-12-19T18:42:33Z")
I grew up in the 60’s and early 70’s and never heard of this. How far back does it go? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/39 "2013-12-19T18:46:36Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Born in NW Indiana. > > “Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio!)” > “Join in any reindeer games (like Monopoly!)” > “You’ll go down in history (like Columbus!)” > [@smaje1](#): > > I love that there are users on this board that have no idea what we’re talking about here. > > Chicago, grew up in the 80s: > > Called him names: Like Pinocchio > Reindeer games: Like Monopoly > History: Like George Washington You both missed: And they shouted out with Glee: (m Toothpaste!) It’s Columbus, btw, and my inner six-year old is vaguely offended by the notion that _other than Columbus_ is even an option (my inner six-year old has _views_ that many people find to be somewhat parochial). California. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727/40 "2013-12-19T18:50:44Z")
West Virginia, & it was Pinocchio, Monopoly, George Washington. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like-___/676727.md?page=3)